TRADE IN ENERGY WTO - Rules Applying under the Energy Charter Treaty
Article from: OGEL 5 (2004), in The Energy Charter Treaty
Introduction
The Energy Charter Treaty ("ECT") contains a variety of provisions on, amongst others, trade, transit, investment, competition, all of which are crucial to the energy sector. This paper is limited to trade in energy. The paper is further confined in two respects. Firstly, it only deals with WTO rules that have been incorporated in the ECT (not with the ECT rules on traderelated investment measures in Article 5, nor with the ECT disciplines on customs duties and other charges in Article 29). Secondly, it is aimed to focus on trade in energy materials and products, even though the ...